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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern gains in online education are making it possible for students all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can we certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Hungary to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desideratum to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be improved. In response to this crescive demand for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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